Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Really, It's About Time!

Modern medicine is mostly about the numbers, so it makes a lot of sense to get the collection and dissemination of it up-to-date.

I'd like to see much more robust implementation of networked technologies in our medical system. Care could be improved dramatically with instant access to patients' data. In Canada we are in a prime position to mandate provincial players tie into networked systems. If I'm in a car crash, I'd like my all of my personal records accessible to the admitting hospital. All prescriptions, private doctors' records, and a history of recent lab work should be there immediately. It's a no-brainer, really.

I signed into my ehealth after getting some lab results. These are the first small steps on a much larger journey. The business and financial sectors seem to have adapted to the Internet much more quickly than health care providers.